Images from the Studio

The following images are from my 1st ever time in a studio shooting a model, the Equipment used was; My camera a Sony a300, with the standard 18-70mm lens, 2x Coreflash CF-D400 flash units, http://www.viewfinderphotography.co.uk/products/CoreFlash-CF%252dD400-Digital-Control-Studio-Flash.html with white umbrellas. 

These were positioned to the front and to the left and right of the model. 

For the main part of the shoot I used my camera on a Camlink TP2500 tripod,  http://www.camlink.eu.com/products/tripods/value/TP2500.html 

For the rest of the shoot I did it freehand.

The last few shots in the shoot (at the bottom of the page) I had a fan low down on the floor blowing up towards the model, which is how I got the movement in her hair.

Ok so here are a few (none edited) photo's from my 1st ever studio shoot. I will start with the 1st (and not the best) photo of the model, and work through to the others. I think I took somewhere in the region of 500 photo's. Not all good but hopefully a high percentage will be good enough.


Being my 1st shoot I a bit nervous and not very accertive with the model, but as the shoot when on I became more confident and was asking the model to hold certain poses for me.
The rest of the time the model kept moving and changing position for pretty much each photo.

 

This is the 1st test shot I did whilst the Make-up artist got ready, being self critical I thought for a totally white painted studio the background was a little dark and Grey looking, So I changed the f stops on the lights from 3 to 3.5. and the next shot is what I got.

So slightly better light, and the background is less grey but I still wasn't happy, so I then adjusted the Shutter speed to 1/80

 

So this is the setting I used for the pretty much the rest of the shoot, ISO 100 Shutter1/80 and apature f14 on these 1st few shots, I did play around with this and dropped it to f9 later on in the shot.
On my small 3.5inch camera screen the background didn't look this grey, but as I adjusted the apature later on the background did become a bit more white.


So that was the test shots done, and the make up artist did her thing, and the next photo is the 1st after make-up (I think the make-up applied was very suttle at this stage, so not a big difference).

So looking at my settings, I must of realised the background in the test shots wasn't great, and I had adjusted the shutter in this image to f9. But the next shot I adjusted it back to f10, as I felt that this was a little over exposed.

 So this is adjusted to f10, which looks on here, but I must of thought at the time still a little over exposed as the next shot I adjusted again.

This is now adjusted to f11,  and I think this may of been at the request of the make-up artist, as she was worried about shine on the models nose/cheeks/forehead.
Not sure if I adjusted again for the same reason as above, or just to try it, but thsis next one is back to f13!

So I think as this point I said I was happy with the settings, and the model started to try different poses, not at my request, as I stated earlier, I was nervous and a bit unsure, so the model and the make-up artist decided on most of the poses. Any that i asked for I will highlight this as I get to them.
I will now put on a few pictures in a row, to show the different poses and the shots I like, mainly the pose, as the settings didn't really change.

There were many many more diffrent poses, so I will now move onto the next outfit change that happened, If I remember rightly, the Make-up stayed the same untill later.

The last set of photo's i'm now going to put on from the shoot is the last change, the model changed he clothes and the make-up artist changed the make-up quite dramatically.